On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:17 PM, James A.R. Koehler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Yes, I tried that and got exactly the same result. Last night, I > installed the Windows version of Lyx on a WIndows XP virtual machine and it > all installed and ran correctly. However, I do not want to use it that way; > I want to run the Linux version. I need to edit some material I wrote a few > years ago so this is very frustrating. > > The .lyx/layouts directory is completely empty and, indeed, so are all > the other sub-directories under .lyx > Then you can simply try to mv ~/.lyx ~/.lyx.bak and then restart LyX.
Liviu > Jim > > > > On 14-03-26 11:36 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:00 PM, James A.R. Koehler >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I have installed Lyx (several times!) on two Mint16 machines; one a >>> 32-bit >>> version and the other 64-bit. Mint is based on Ubuntu 13. In both cases, >>> when installing either from a download from the Lyx site or via the .deb >>> repository, it installs without any classes or layouts; i.e., it is not >>> very >>> >> Have you tried installing from the PPA? >> >> https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/release >> >> >> Liviu >> >>> useful. If I try to read the User Manual, it comes up with an error >>> saying >>> it cannot find the appropriate class to display the data. Catch 22. >>> >>> In previous installations on earlier distributions of Linux in other >>> years, >>> the installation was seamless and problem free. Help! >>> >>> Jim >>> >> >> > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
